Terribly British Top 10s; CELEBRATING QUIRKS THAT MAKE US SPECIAL

Byline: ROD MCPHEE

This green and pleasant land may be home to rolling hills, warm beer and cricket, but it's also full of bizarre, hilarious and silly quirks that make Britain so, well, British.

Did you know that there's a London shop flogging fridges called Sellfridges? Did you know there's a County Durham village called Pity Me?All these obscure facts have been brought together by writer John Rentoul in his new book Listel-lany: A Miscellany of very British Top Tens, which proves we can not only laugh at ourselves, but, in the case of daft car names, silly foreigners too.

Here's a selection of the best Top Tens in the new book...

Listellany: A Miscellany of Very British Top Tens: From Politics to Pop by John Rentoul is published tomorrow by Elliott & Thompson, price PS9.99.

rod.mcphee@mirror.co.uk

Most English Remarks Of All Time

1 I am just going outside and may be some time. - Antarctic explorer Captain Oates, inset, as he sacrificed his own life to save his comrades.

2 I think it's easing. (of the rain).

3 Old maids hiking to Holy Commun-ion through the mists of the autumn morning. - George Orwell, England Your England.

4 Who you looking at, mate? (usually in a pub).

5 Sorry.

6 By God, sir, I've lost my leg! By God, sir, so you have! - Lord Uxbridge and the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo.

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